St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 28, 1915

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laughter is 1 expected. Let the = the . e. page Sunday help you k pleasures for the week, T.LOUIS POST-DI Only Evening Paper m St. Louis With Associated Press News Service. f essential. VOL. 68. NO. 69. ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1915—24 PAGES. PRICE ONE CENT‘ RUSSIANS SHELL BULGARIAN COAST; i NEAR NIMH Muscovite Fleet Reported to Have Appeared Off Varna and Inflicted Heavy Dam- age—Ferdinand’s Troops Moving on rn Capital. Invaders 3 Several Strong Positions 30 Miles East of Nish and Advance on Wide Front. Germans Continue to Make Progress in North, Taking 2000 Prisoners, Many Ma- chine Guns. By Associated Press. ROME, Oct. 28—A Bucharest dispatch to the Stefani News Agency, filed yes- terday, says the Russians hav, begun an attack on the Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria. “A Russian fleet arrived at 4 o' clock this morning off the Bulgarian coast,“ the correspondent wires, and immedi- — began a bombardment of Varna. ling was still proceeding at 11 clock. Considerable damage has been to the town.” BERLIN, Oct. 28, by wireless to Say- ville.—The Austro-German invasion of Servie has been pushed farther to the noutn. ..rmy headquarters announced today tha: further ground had deen gained and that the army of Gen. Gall- witz had taken 2033 prisoners since Oct. 23. The Bulgarians have captured Zajecar and Kriajevats, having crossed the Timok over a large front. Yajecar and Kniajevats are on the railroad from Negotin to Nish, against being the Bulgarians are now march- | n is about thirty miles vaclava, about 15 miles 2 2 (Gast of Nish), 3 by the Bul- La sr of machine guns of the Ser- LONDON. Oct. 28—Unofficial reports om sources represent the situa- tion in Southern Servia as somewhat: more vorable to the entente allies. 4 from Athens, which has not been states that the Bul- garians have withdrawn from Uskup. 3 from Saloniki tell of a fierce a the Velas-Komanovo front | an retreating. Hope is in London that the Ser- to reform their lines | front. * effected a junc- Re ARs y em. BS 7 r 8 5 : eT aR * . NI ; ‘Ibe. jot 3 but good business judgment 1 e hee ndgentiscre concentrate in A Louis "one e. Shee wit "Ma SLIGHTLY COOLER TONIGHT, FAIR SKIES TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. High. 70 at 4 p. m. Low. .54 at 7 a. m. Humidity at 7 p. m. yesterday, 32 per cent; at 7 a. m. today, 54 per cent. StLovis WANTS TO OBSERVE THE CONVENTIONS. Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair tonight and to- morrow; slightly cooler tonight. Missouri — Fair tonight and to- morrow; slightly cooler in north and west portions tonight. SF, ) x Illinois tonight — Fair and to- morrow; slightly cooler in north and west portions tonight. Stage of the riv- er: 12 feet; a fall of .1 of a foot. ALTON FARMERS THRESHING Saving Wheat Crop Given Up as Ruined by Rains 2 Months Ago. Farmers of Bethalto, hear East Alton, owning about 2500 acres, are at work to- day threshing wheat which was given up as ruined two months ego when con- tinuous rains prevented harvesting. Tobias Oetkin suggested to a number 6f nis neighbors about four weeks ago that the wheat be gathered in stacks The weather during October hs been so sunny that the wheat has dried out so that the farmers are getting about 25 busels to the acre. The farmers say they have never heard before of recov- ery of wheat after a similar length of time. BUS EATS LEAD CABLE COVERS Electrolysis Not Responsible for Losses, Telephone Man Says. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28—A _hard- shelled bug with an appetite for lead- pipe, is responsible for the perforation of cable covers for which telephone ex- perts have blamed electrolysis, accord- ing to Albert Schuler of Santa Barbara, Cal., who exhibited three of the insects to the convention of the Independent Te!- ephone Association of America in ses- sion here today. Hhere is your electrolysis, said Schu- ler. Their scientific name is sinoxylon declive, and they have cost us between $300 and 3500 a month in Santa Bar- bara for repairs.” POORHOUSE TO RICHES IN DAY Connecticut Estate Goes Forgotten Uncle. SOUTH NORWALK, Conn., Oct. 28.— From the poorhouse to riches in a day is the pleasant change in the life of Giles Gregory of this place. Henry Green, an eccentric, died yes- terday. It was thought that he had willed his $150,000 to his relatives who had attended him during life. No will was found, which means that the en- tire estate goes to an almost forgot- ten uncle, Giles Gregory, who has been an occupant of the poorhouse for many years. CARS FOR “FRESH AIR FIENDS” Limited Number Will Be Run on Chicago Elevated Trains. CHICAGO, Oct. 28.—Fresh-air cars, windowless and unheated, are to be op- erated on Chicago’s elevated railway system for the benefit of passengers who are out-of-doors flends.“ The cars, it as armounced today, probably will be run on half-hour schedules. Only one coach to a train will be unheated. It will be marked Fresh Air Car.“ Health Commissioner Dr. Jobn Dill Robertson suggested the Iden. : MOTHER OF 9; TRIPLETS ARRIVE Mississippi Woman Who Is Only 38 Has Five Grandchildren. MBERIDIAN, Miss., Oct. 28.—Triplets to Almost have been born here to Mrs. James Reeves. Two of the triplets are girls and weigh seven pounds, while the boy welghs eight pounds, ond all are lusty youngsters. Mrs. Reeves is now the mother of 2 children. She is also the grandmother of five children, the eldest of which is six years old. She was married when she was 16 and is now only 38. FRENCH MINISTRY RESIGNS; BRIAND | ‘TO BE PREMIER Gen. Gallieni, Military Governor of Paris, Expected to Become Ministér of War. VIVIAN] TO HAVE POST Jules Cambon, Former Ambas- sador to Germany, Likely to Direct Foreign Affairs. By Associated Press. PARIS, Oct. 28.—The Viviani ministry resigned today. Aristide Briand, former Premier and present Minister of Justice, has been asked to form a new Cabinet. The following statement to the press was made by M. Briand before his se- lection to form a new Cabinet was an- nounced: “Premier Viviani took steps to enlarge his Cabinet. I am continuing them in my turn, but I have no official man- date, since there is no ministerial! crisis. Accordingly, the conversations I have had with various political leaders have been only semi-official, and I ask you to explain that it is in that sense that my activities must be regarded. Perhaps I may be in a position to 1 more very .s00n.”’ Briand Was Premier in 1913. Information now available indicates that M. Briand will become Foreign Minister as well as Premier with Jules Cambon, who was Ambassador to Ger- many at the outbreak of the war, was his principal secretary. M. Viviani ts expected to be Minister of Justice in the new Cabinet. Other probable des- ignations are: Minister of War, Gen. J. S. Gallien, Military Governor of Paris; Minister of | Marine, Rear Admiral Lacase; Minister of Agriculture, Etienne Clementel, for- mer Minister of Agriculture and of Fi- ance; Minister, of Commerce, L. L. Klotz, former Minister of the Interior and Finance, or Joseph Thierry, Un- der Secretary in the Ministry of War: Minister of Instruction, Embile Combes, former Premier. The other members of the present Cab- inet, according to this program, will ‘Continue in their present positions. The Journal states that there will be six Mintöters of State without portfolios, of whom four will be Senators and two Deputies. It is also said that Under Secretaryships will not be filled except in the case of the Minister of War in which department Albert Thomas is to be continued in office in charge of the output of munitions. Gallieni to Be War Minister. It is understood that as general sec- retary of the Foreign Office M. Cam- bon will be responsible for the direc- IFIGHT EXPECTED OER $2,000,000 GREEN ESTATE Twin Granddaughters of Manu- facturer Said to Contemplate Suit to Break Will. WERE LEFT $1250 EACH Bulk of Wealth Was Bequeathed to Three Children by His Second Wife. — A contest between the heirs of the late James Green, by his two marriages, involving the greater part of an estate inventoried at $2,183,818.04, is expected to begin shortly. Green, who was chair- man of the board of directors of the Laclede-Christy Clay Products Co., died a year ago, aged 85 years. Green’s daughter by his first mar- riage, Laura Green, married Capt. Wil- liam Littlebrant, U. S. Army, who is now stationed at the Presidio, San Francisco. She is dead, and her twin Caugliters, Laura and Marian Little- Vrandt, are the prospective principals in a suit to break the Green will. John F. Lee of St. Louis is said to have been engaged to file this suit. He re- fused to discuss the matter with a re- porter, Wedded Second Wife in 1872. Green's second wife was Mrs. May Weller (nee Rumsey), and was wealthy. He married her in 1872, and three of their children are now living. They are John Leigh Green of 12 Kingsbury place, president of the Laclede-Christy Co.; Mrs. Walter Duke Thomson and Harold Rumsey Green. The second Mrs. Green died some years before her husband, leaving to him most of her estate. In his will, Green left bequests to the Littlebrandt girls, his granddaughters, of $1250 each, and made bequests to other grandchildren by his first mar- riage. He then left the bulk of his estate to the three children by his sec- ond marriage. It is expected that the latter heirs, in case any charge of favoritism or undue influence is made, will allege that Green acquired most of his prop- erty by inheritance from his second wife. or through the means furnished to him by her, and that her children are therefore justly entitled to more of the estate than the children of the first marriage. How He Divided Wealth. In his will Green said that he had previously given each of his children $12,500, except that he had given his daughter, Mrs. Littlebrant, only $10,000, and had given nothing to Harold Rum- sey Green. He therefore, desiring to | Orphanage Child Taken Into Wealthy castes — —— Home ‘make LOUISE JOYCE. ESTERDAY, Mary Louise Watson, 3 years old, was the daughter of a poor Arkansas farmer without prospect of inheritance and so poor, ly indeed, that her father had been compelled to place her in the Bap- tist Orphans’ a home for her. Home in East St. Louis because he was not able to provide Today, she is an heiress, by adoption, to a considerable fortune, overnight fairy godfather and godmother in her case being Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Joyce of East St. Louis, who have taken her home and made, as far as the processes of the law will permit, their very own. 20 CHILDREN 7 r PAR'SH SCHOOL FIRE IN MASSAGHUSE * Panic Among 700 Pupils in Institution at Peabody Breaks Up Drill; Many Killed in Vestibule, WOODEN STAIRWAYS: NO OUTSIDE FIRE. ESCAPES. 16 Nuns Get Out, One After Dropping 25 Chil- dren From Window Into Blanket Nets Only Two of Dead Identified —Score Injured. — By Associated Press. Nineteen of the boys and girls, none out of their teens, wers chial school lost their lives in a fire which started in the basement a few minutes after the morning session had opened today and swept through the thre stories of the brick and wooden ache’ i building in less than five minutes. Nineteen of the boys and girls, none out of their teents, were burned or crushed to death while attempting to eseape from the building, which was not equipped with fire emeapes.’ A score ‘of into their Others were injured, some dangerously. Of the latter, Mildred Mead, 16 years old, died after having been removal to a hospitul. the Illinois State Bank of East St. Louis, of which he is president. Mr. and Mrs. Joyce have no children and Mary Louise will take ‘the place of N a ; fright- the little girl they lost nine years ago. Joyce is the leading stockholder in Fg e A alter pap a io ‘fully burned and of the 19 at the morgue His ¢nly two—Blizabeth. Nolan, 17, and Mary home is one of the handsomest in Southern TIlinois. Mr. and Mr Joyce Sumtwvan. 16—both members of the senior became interested in Mary Louise on a visit to the orphanage last spring. Fate been r eee bodies w They went to Belleville with the child” 8 father, John W. Watson, Wednosday prod and it was thought that 2% had afternoon anf formally adopted her in the Circuit Court. SUNTY OFFERS [CHNESE WANTS. Ss Sess PROF. BY FEES | DIVORCE FROM Mother Superior Aldgeon, who in charge of the pupils, heard an expl and detecting smoke, sounded the alarm. Wide stairways at either end of the in- found in the crush badly burned alive and. were removed to a hi St. John’s Parochial School Chestnut street, near St. John's olle Church, and the home of the Nicholas Murphy, the pastor. is St. John's Convent ‘The first alarm brought scores tracted mothers to the schoolyard. they were joined. bs dy other the pupils, until the rounded by a grea women, who rushed wild effort to reach the police could not st they failed to 8 ö presently by the flames, ing from the windows of held back the — tion of foreign affairs. The belief was expressed by persons in close touch with the situation that Premier Viviani’s long service through the period since the outbregk of the war had taxed his strength severely and that he desired to rest as well as to bring forward some strong figure who would unite all elements as his succes- sor. It is expected that M. Ribot, Minis- ter of Finance and M. Millerand, Minis- ter of War, will be associated with the new Cabinet. Since the resignation of Theophile Delcasse, as Foreign Minister, on Det. ig. it has been understood that there would be further chan n ‘the C. - net, but reports previously have not in- dicated that such a sweeping reorgan- ization: involving the withdrawal of M. Viviani from the premiership was to be made. M. Delcasse’s resignation was said to be due to a disagreement re- garding the Balkan policy of Frs uce, but Premier Viviani said in the Cham- ber of Deputies at the time that there was no discord in the Cabinet. The French Cabinet has been previ- ) ously reorganized since the beginning of the war. The Viviani ministry resigned Aug. % of last year, and a coalition Cabinet was formed, with M. Viviani remaining at its head. M. Briand has held several Cabinet positions and was Premier from Jan. 21 Justice in the present Cabinet. Want a Home? See the Bargains ad- vertised in the Post-Dispatch Real _s- | tate columns-—3000 offers every Sunday. — — . — — —— ——— —— — —— ape ost-Dispatch, Republic and Times seeeeoeoeeeeeeeaeeeeeeeneenrn ~ Circulation that sells the 8 me 1 Unerring Judgment Wednesday, as usual, our home merchants chose the Post- Dispatch to carry their daily announcements to the buyers of St. Louis and alone, 56 cols. 56 cols. * to March 18 of 1913. He is Minister ot — ON REE. —— —2— > 3 s N 3 * equalize them,“ gave the Littlebrant girls $1250 each, making up the $2500 which their mother had not received, and gave Harold Rumsey Green $12,500. He then proceeded to divide the bulk of the estate into three equal parts, which went to his children by the second mar- riage. WHAT DID KAISER WILHELM AND GERARD TALK ABOUT? Much Speculation in Washington Cir- cles—~Lansing Did Not Know In- terview Was to Take Plaee. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Ambassador Geruard'g Fe@ent conference with Em- peror William is causing much specula- tion in official quarters here. Secretary Lansing stated today that the Ambassador had not been directed to vist the Emperor and that no report of the conference had been received. It is generally presumed that on the re- turn of the Emperor to Potsdam the Ambassador made an informal visit in the inter & of nnn rela- tions. The possibility that Emperor William might have taken advantage of the op- portunity to express to Ambassador Gerard Germany's views on peace was renerally talked of here today. CITY OFFICIAL ARRESTED FOR VIOLATING TRAFFIC RULES Acting Water Commissioner Released After He Promises to Obey Signals in Future. Francis T. Cutts, acting Water Com- missioner, was arrested by a motor cycle policeman in front of the city hall at 9 a. m. today on a charge of violating the traffic regulations. The policeman said Cutts turned into the semi-circular driveway on Twelfth street without giving a signal that he stended to do so, In the absence of the signal the motor cycle policeman almost collided with Cutts’ machine. Cutts was taken to Central District Station. He was released on his promise that in future he would not neglect to give the required signal. HAITIANS ATTACK AMERICANS) — Reinforcements sent te Grand Riviere| CAPE HAITIEN, Halt, Oct. -The 2 2. eee eee den : Ea ‘ ; . * 8 8 K "es 7 5 * ot wee 2 2 * oi WF 7 . Ry IN SPEED’ CASES in doubt. A member of the State police Assistant Prosecutor Says He Be- thinks it started in a closet near the stairway and was caused by a hot-air | lieves Arrests Are Not Made in Good Faith. explosion. Fifteen cases against alleged auto speeders who had been apprehended by Deputy Constables Dunn and Hughes as they passed through Bonhomme Town- ship, in St. Louis County. were dis- missed yesterday by Justices of the Peace Koche at Creve Coeur and J. M. Brown at Ballwin; on the recommenda- tion of Lloyd W. Brooks, Assistant Pros- ecuting Attorney, when the latter said he did not believe any of these arrested were guilty of the charge. The cases were dismissed without trial. In explanation of his action in recom- mending their dismissal, Brooks said: „ don't believe the arrests were made in good faith. There might be a technical violation of the law in some of these cases, but it does seem unreagonable that people of prominence would drive their cars at dangerous and .reckless rates of speed with members of their families i. the cars.“ Many complaints have been made against the great number of arrests the autoists in Bonhomme, where the Dep- uty Constables receive no salaries out are dependent upon the fees received from arrests. . Eleven cases were dismissed by Jus- tice Knoche and four by Justice Brown. Those who had been arrested were Or. H. M. Post, A. W. Hall, J. F. Schild- knicht, George B. Parsons, J. A. Wav- rin, L. Gordon, Benjamin Hiller, J. P. Williams, Dr. George Dock, Roy Drew, Daniel Wellhoun, Henry Lockett, J. M. Nichols, Wells Palm and Winkelmeier. The arrests were made in the last 10 days. Under the elastic fee system the Dep- uty making an arrest receives $1 for the arrest and 50 cents for the bond given upon the road. On trial day the Deputy is allowed 5 cents a mile for his trip from the scene of the arrest to the HIS WHITE WIFE: Samuel Dow, Washington U. Medical Student, Declares Woman Has Deserted Him. Samuel Dow, a Chinese medical post- graduate student at Washington University, today prepared a petition to be filed tomorrow for a divorce from his white wife, Alice Atkins Dow, an American, to whom he was married Jen. 4, of this year, at Baltimore, Md. He alieges that she left their apartments st 469 McPherson avenue, Oct. 10, after compelling him by threats to hand over to her all his ready cash, amounting to $30. She went back to her home in Balti- more, he says. According to the petition, Mrs. Dowy threatened her husband's life with a re- volver and a knife,, she was not a tidy housekeeper and would not cook for her husband, she went out nearly every aft- ernoon and stayed out late at night. On 12 different occasions she struck Dow with her fists, he says. He also complains that she corresponded with other men and led them to believe she was not married. Dow says by saying before. He did not know to the contrary until especially coresponding with a Japanese artist in St. Louis, in whose studio she spent her idle hours, as art and indelicately exposing arms and shoulders. Dow says his wife deceived him by saying she had never been married before. eH did not know to the con- , trary until one day, in rummaging | among her effects, he came upon a photograph of twa Chinese children whose features resembied his wife's. As a result of this discovery Dow started an investigation which resulted her in his learning that Mrs. Dow had been the wife of another Celestial, to whom | | less one. she was married in China, the plaintiff's attorney, Max F. Ruler, said. According to the attorney Dow and his wife were married upon short ac- quaintance after they had met in a | cafe in Baltimore. They came to St. Louis in June, at which time Dow made - arrangements+to take a post-graduate medicine. course in NEW YORK, Oct, ene Russian ! first floor were piled up in front of the posing in positions styled ' teriot led down to‘the front exit. Under fire drill discipline he little ones were marched through constantly thickening clouds of smoke to the ground floor, where the leaders lost their heads. Instead of passing out of the rear exit, according to rule, they made a dash for the front door and became jammed in the vestibule. Meantime the fire had eaten its way upward from directly under the front entrance and the vestibule, crowded with pupils, presently was enveloped in flames. Many Dropped From Windows. Many reached the open and others were’ dropped from second and third story windows or dragged out of the windows on the ground floor. Sister Caremella was one of the last to leave the building. She stood at the head of the stairs on the second floor, direct- ing the children. Catherine E. O’Connell, 13, was among the first to escape, but when she got outside she found that her two little brothers were missing, and she broke away from the crowd and ran back into the building. The brothers later were reported to be safe, but no trace of Catherine could be found after the fire. Genevieve Phillips, one of those who escaped, said: “There was no confusion and everything went smoothly until we came to a point about halfway down the stairs between the first and second floors. Looking down over the heads of the children ahead, we saw a terrible scene. The younger chiidren’from the doorway. The sisters were doing their best to get the children through the doors. Children Faint and Fall, “Many of the little ones were terror- years ago at a cost of stricken and crying at the top of their lungs. Some had fainted and were be- ing dragged along in-the crush. A few had fallen. Children, part of them un- der seven years, were struggling to keep their feet. The sisters were woekt- | ing frantically to rescue those who had fallen, but the task was almost a hope- “A small cloud of smoke. was drifing Youre od 212 The school b. ding was 10 * — Police and firemen. bent i i L. 7 ing, declared that ha ve originated from said that he banked left it at 8 o'clock his this 3 City to Have Pietures of an 2808 . ey 3 * ** i, 2 8 eee, a a ae all * * * — Rf hy 3 Py = ee — * * o 4 25 2 : 85 82 5 1 ne